Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Halloween Kitty PTU

I wrote this Tutorial, any resemblance to others is purely a coincidence. Please DO NOT add this to any Website, Forum or Group Without My permission.
The Halloween Kit is called "Halloween Kitty" By WhiteMyst Designs and can be found Here
The tubes I am using is by Brigid  Ashwood found Here
Filter = EC5 impact -- glass
My Supplies =  Here 
Filters - EC5 Impact 
Drop Shadow = DS = 2,2,50,5 black
Tubes - 2 tubes of choice
Let's get started
1.) Iron Fence -Copy and Paste = C&P --- as new raster layer = NRL - place in center of tag. - DS -  you might have to duplicate = Dup. and mirror, do this until your fence goes directly across your canvas.
2.) Creepy Tree--Some of these tubes are by "Belles Graphics " Please do not share them unless you have Becky's permission.-(to do so, would be not following her tou's )
 3.) Bat and Moon- C&P as NRL- place on upper left corner-- EC4 Gradient Glow--10 Yellow - DS - Tag Reference = TR
4.) Tombstone 2  = Resize = R. = 50% - Sharpen = Unsharp Mask= USM - C&P as NRL- place in center - DS & TR
5.) Tombstone - R = 50% X2 - USM - C&P as NRL- place on right side - move layer below fence layer - DS & TR
6.) Physco house - R= 54% & 80% X2 - USM - C&P as NRL- mirror and place on right side top. Move layer right above bottom layer - close off bottom layer.
7.) Grass - C&P as NRL- place on bottom - Dup. mirror and Merge Down = MD. move layer right below house--Dup. and Flip - bring down - MD - TR - continue making enough grass as you need..
8.) Click on bottom layer- add a NRL - flood fill -with 000000 (black)  rename sky
9.) Tube 1 = C&P as NRL- place on right side .-- Dup. Blur- Gaussian 6 --  Blend Mode = Hard Light - Opacity = 90% - MD & DS
10.) Witch Table - R = 50% - USM - C&P as NRL-place on grass - move layer below witch TR - Don't DS for now.
11.) With Ellipse tool - draw a circle - nice size one - Example in Supplies - when don Convert to raster layer-- with magic wand click on inside of circle
12.) Selection - modify - expand 6 - C&P as NRL- paper 1 ( or of your choice) invert on circle - delete on paper- Select none-
13.) If you want to animate- continue to do these steps. If not skip line #14
14.)  2nd Tube - C&P as NRL-  place under circle - and erase any sticking out of circle, try to center the picture where you can see almost all of the tube - DS & TR
15.) Still working on the Crystal Ball - (merge the 2 Down) with Ellipse tool - Material  (create on vector) line style - straight- width - 5 - anti - alias- checked. draw a decent circle around image - then go to- effects -EC5 Impact - glass - settings - Clear with reflection -now delete your elipse layer. Dup. Crystal Ball and then close- on duplicate you want to R = 15% USM - make it fit on the crystal ball- once done --Merge Down - MD
16.) Black cat - R = 50% USM.. - C&P as NRL - place on bottom left - DS - Dup. R = 80% - mirror - place on center fence - move layer below tree layer-- TR
17.)  Candy Bucket - R = 50% & 80%X2--USM -- C&P as NRL - Place it on center bottom.
18.) Cat on Pumpkin - R = 50% X2 - USM -  - C&P as NRL -Place it on right side bottom center--DS--TR- Dup. move this one left top side center - move layer below fence layer.
19.) Cauldron R= 50% USM - - C&P as NRL -move to left side - TR & DS
20.) Ghost - R = 50% USM - - C&P as NRL -place on right side- DS & TR - Dup. R = 50% - mirror - and move lower - TR
21.) Halloween lights - R = 50% USM - C&P as NRL - place on fence - from left to right - Dup.-move it over to other side ,ande next to other one. - Dup. one more time = 4 layers - merge these down to each other once happy crop to fit - opaque = 900X900--DS & TR
22.) Jack -C&P as NRL - place on left side - DS & TR
23.) Mummy - R = 50% & 80% X 2-C&P as NRL -DS - place on center bottom - move beklow crysatl ball layer - TR - mirror - Dup. R= 80% place this one on top center - TR
24.) Spider Web - R =50% USM-C&P as NRL -(DS) place on right side of house - TR = Dup. -R= 50% sharpen--place on bottom of tree - TR - Dup. and mirror - place it on fence.
25.) Witch - R = 50% USM - C&P as NRL -- place on bottom left side--DS & TR
26.) Vamptini - R = 50% X 2 - USM -C&P as NRL - place this one in front of center - DS & TR - Dup. - R = 80% place on crystal ball table in front --TR
27.) Scary Butterfly - R = 50% USM-C&P as NRL -place on top right - DS & TR -- free rotate - left 25 -- Dup. R =80% - mirror - place on bottom left.
28.) Sparkle - place on bottom - move layer right above sky - =Opacity 80%--MD 
29.)  Go ahead and Merge Vivible all layers below the CB layer -- Now R = 56% = 504 X 504 - Sharpen - now add all thr copy right info and then name-- if you do not wish to animate-delete the CB layer and Merge Visible and then save as PNG.
TO Animate keep going.
30.) let's get started....-on the layers below the CB layer rename them "Bottom" Now working on the top layer - with your Preset shape tool, and with colors to accent your tube, draw an arrow-the examples for all these should be in my files..
31.) DS and rename them R=Arrows  - convert to raster layer
32.) Now open CB and close - orginal-- open arrows on bottom
GO To Animation shop- copy as new rastrer layer and paste into AS.
Repeat this by opening the close area as well --TR
do this for a 3 frame tag-- when happy-change frame properties to 45-- view and when happy saves as 80%
thank you for looking at my finished tuts.
Hugs
Angie
 
 


Sunday, November 16, 2014

October

I am sorry I didn't get any tutorials done this month. Real life did a bang up job on this family.. My BF's Mom died, we had her funeral, which she was buried on the anniversary of our Dad's passing, even though it's been 4yr's. And then we had to pack up her 3 bedroom duplex apartment, and we only had from the 14th to the 31st to have all her stuff packed and gone. Even in Death there is no respect.
And in all this we had to leave town due to, an emergency for 4 days. Oh yeah, we also had to plan a Wedding of my BF to my brother, his 1st marriage.. took him 50 yr's , about time.. huh?
Ok so my next 2 tutorials are Halloween based, sorry- better late than never...
Can't wait till things get back to order.
hugs
Angie